Blessings Karl, I really love the fact that you used your 5D and not a high end medium format. Sometimes people feel that it's all about your expensive gear. You're a man that study and practice to get where you are. Much love!

I just love how informations are simplified, and yet amazing and helpful. Thank you very much. 😊

great video as always. this is the very heart and core of photography: understanding the light. thank you!

You deserve the name of legend 🖤

Its always a treat to watch your photography educational clips. You have got such command over your specialty. And its actually the knowledge of the camera, lens, lights, props, photoshop etc that results in this marvelous image at the end. You are the master.

Expensive gear and a big studio helps, but it doesnt matter if you lack the creativity! Really glad I stumbled over your channel! Thumbs up, and a great thanks for your effort in helping others!

Thanks Karl. Exceptional, as usual. Good to see you're safe and well.

I just took on a big project based on what you wrote and presented in this clip. 98% of the pictures are old wine bottles that I wanted to present in a professional way and that can be sold. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. 🖤

YAAAAAASSSSSS!!! You did that Karl!!

Thank you. Nice demo.

That was incredible

Incredible 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I can't stop admiring your work, Karl. Thanks a ton for your lessons. Best regards from Mother Russia Nick

I love your work and the passion with which he transmits his knowledge. Thank you!

It was a very useful video. Your shooting techniques are very nice. Thanks Mr. Taylor

Wicked as always Karl! Thank you!

Karl, u r the best teacher i am really inspired by your photography and tricks. i am following you in my photography....... blessings

Well done! Great tutorial.

Excellent.....

Wow just wow! 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

I enjoy your videos here on KZfaq. It’s a great refresher for everyone. Thanks

This was beautiful. Intricate lighting steps. Thanks a lot for sharing such invaluable techniques.

Wow, impactful 👏🥰

Another great video for some terrific tips mate. You are actually the first video i watched on youtube over 10 years ago teaching me landscape and fashion basics. Yowzah i feel old. Really enjoy your channel.

You are such an ENORMOUS BLESSING!! Thank you so much for providing this valuable information for free to us! You are so incredibly experienced and teach so well!

Awesome work, thank you for the tips and tricks.

Breathtaking and magical!

Amazing as always!

Nice Loved the lighting in this simple but effective

Awesome tutorial. Thank you.

This was nice, enjoyed seeing how you pulled it together.

This is fantastic!

You have a very good professional delivery style of presenting. Impressed with your videos.

Simple tutorial without to much blabla, great job

.. wooooowwwww ... 👍😍

Hi Karl, A brilliant tutorial on how to shoot Professional Product Photography that could only be Karl Taylor, a True Professional in every sense of the Word. Thank you for sharing this tutorial with us Karl, Truly as always a Pleasure watching a True Professional at Work

I REALLY LOVE YOUR VIDEOS.THANKS FOR SHARING!!!! :)

Crazy! Top! Thanks a lot!!!

Hi from Jamaica. Always educational. Greatly appreciative of the lessons. Continue to teach and inspire Mr Taylor.

Well done. Thank you, This is a great video and very informative.

King of Photography

wooo! I've never thought of using an ND Filter in the studio! Cool idea. Do you have any vids showing the difference it makes? Keen to try this out when I get my new R5 drop in filter adapter!

Thanks for that tutorial,I only have speed lights,and try to keep um with the competition s, it's tricky but once again you showed it's possible ✌️✌️

well done .like the set up thanks

Brill!

Amazing 🤩

Thank you for having the video. This be great if your contract worker, personal work, or business for E Commerce.

That's a nice one, informative.

Amazing Karl..great job and thanks for all these infos:)

Nice video, direct to the point.

Savage tutorial as always dude

Fantastic photography

Fantastic content, concept, and conception!

Thanks you so much

Your photography and presentation skilled are motivated me always

Beautiful lighting

This is great, Karl. I've been shooting product photos for years and use speedlites all the time. They are so versatile! (Tip: get a battery pack.)

Świetne materiały

Inspiring, indeed!

nice simple setup

The Master of Light indeed

That's right!!! It surely ain't the tool... Good job Karl!!!

Great video thank you

Excellent

You're awesome!

Just amazing 😯👍💪

thanks for sharing

Thanks 👌

Awesome

Great

Chapeau

thank you, Karl!

Fantastic videos.

Sensacional, muito obrigado por compartilhar.

Mind blowing tutorial sir

You are great Sir 👏👏

great video

love this video! yeah, im late to the game but still made it here! i couldnt follow what you did in PS because a) ive only ever tried using PS Elements (about 8 years ago) b) i wasnt sure what you were working on, it went so quickly except i DID see you cloned the bottling information from the cap. i know LR (although it seems a lot of people do HEAPS more work in post than what i do!) again, great video!

Great and Excellent video 👍

Hi Karl great to see another of your "its not about having expensive gear" shoots - Im using speedlites and also LED lights for my work and Im often debating with myself per project the need for flash versus constant lights. Flash is great if one is not able to black out a room it gives that control oveer ambient, as well as being able to shoot at ISO 100 for noise free shots, whereas LED allows a what you see is what you get approach which can be easier and more fluid way of working, but with the lower power usually meeaning higher ISOs and higher noise. Today Im trying a whiskey bottle challenge and while its daytime Im going to use speedlites but later when dark will try LEDs and compare results for interest!

Thank you sir

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Have to give it to you, you take lighting to an extreme level. Love your eye for detail. IMO it's all about the knowledge where to put the lights , basically you have taken the shot already in your mind, this is merely the execution. Since you have a lot of equipment at your disposal, I wonder do you ever add lighting in post (PS or LR/C1) ? Thanks for sharing !!

Amazing! This is one of the best quick fire, flash gun tutorials Ive seen in a decade! Bravo

Thanks sir 🙏🏻

Thank you so much! Gorgeous videos and it seems that we don't have a choice, but to buy your classes! =)

Very nice vid, however I think that for this type of shots it's very important to use a speedlite with modelling light (actually, only a few have such characteristic), while for portraits it is not necessary. What do you think about this? Even if it's possible to shoot products without modelling light, I think it would be a nightmare!

Great 👍

Karl, your work is absolutely incredible, and you’re an excellent photography educator. If you produced a series of courses lighting entirely with speedlites, and affordable strobes similar to the Godox AD200 and AD400 pro and common affordable (let’s say Amazon acquired) modifiers, I for one would subscribe to your paid education and I’m sure many others would as well. Thank you so much for the time, energy, enthusiasm and careful technical detail you put into these KZfaq videos. Great job!

New photographers shouldn't let big brain ego enlist photographers get to them. You can still achieve high quality photos with $20 speed lights, a starter camera, and very well planned stage and background. This guy will always show you the way

Great tutorial! I would love to see a tutorial how to shoot a transparent bottle like this on a dark/black background. I have trouble with getting nice and smooth reflections on the sides and lightning.

cheapest lighting set up with Highly results ...Thanks Taylor Sir

From Russia with love!!!

Your videos are always diamond 💎💎💎💎 sir

Karl, do you use a reflective surface on the floor when doing full body studio shots?

Hi Karl, really loving your video's giving me the right input to my work. One question for using speedlights with softboxes. What are your recommendation for using the built in scatter and zoom together with a softbox or behind diffusion foils. Thanks

pretty sure i could duplicate the set up and shoot even without the modeling lamp feature of those speedlites, but holy CATS! i have no idea what you did in Ps afterwards. i really have no clue when it comes to that software (im primarily a Lr guy) and that 'quick overview' was certainly that!

I will try this out tomorrow but how on earth did you get that background to look like that Karl. I like the bounce back of the lighy

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I've been into all things photography for a solid 3 years. I'm a subscriber to many photography youtube channels. I'm a member of Dave Morrow photography (which I HIGHLY recommend) landscape photographer. I have 3 canon cameras, all the lenses, and all the studio gear needed to shoot just about anything on the planet. I have shot events, parties, studio portraits, fashion, landscape, wildlife, macro, etc. etc. I'm a member or subscriber to several Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop training channels. I'm having a lot of fun and learning a lot from many of these avenues. If I were to give advice to anyone serious about either their photography as an art or business...the #1 thing I would recommend, 90% out of 100% of the learning tools available on the planet, would be Karl Taylor's education system. There are many, many great and wonderful teaching tools available on the internet these days, and they all should be pursued. But in my opinion and experience photography requires a huge foundation be laid to become a true and great artist and/or a true and great photography business person. No one is addressing the FOUNDATION--the foundation of not only gear, and technique, and approach to various photography genre, but also of the attitude needed, the discipline, the hard work ethic needed, and the openness of mind and fortitude to pursue each student's artistic insight and taste. As a member of Karl Taylor Education I found Karl's teaching system to be the most comprehensive and complete foundational systems there is. Frankly, there is no other system designed to take you from kindergarten to graduation. Karl's experience and passion is obvious. His lighting techniques are artistic, whether he is teaching studio portrait, fashion, or food photography. His guests are experts and he uses them to help teach his students. All the teachings overlap to some degree. It is all important.....and frankly, it is all very interesting and entertaining to a degree that it doesn't matter if one is going to ever shoot in that genre--there is still something to learn there. I really think that Karl Taylor Education is the best tool available to the any photographer today.